Application Name: bzip2

Current version: 1.0.2

Last modified on Oct 14 10:35

bzip2 - yet another compression package bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of GNU Gzip, but they are not identical.

Man pages:
bzcmp
bzdiff
bzegrep
bzfgrep
bzgrep
bzip2
bzless
bzmore

Docs and manuals:
manual